, which can be seen by any product that was made in China and then sold in the United States. Another cultural flow is images, which can be seen by any type of movie or television show that was made in the United States and then watched anywhere else in the world. Finally, the last cultural flow is ideologies, which is any belief or value shared between two different cultures. These five different cultural flows move in many different directions and help connect the whole world together.On page 6 in the book, "Cosmopolis," it says, "The end of Modernity is closer to us than the beginning, and may be easier to spot." As time goes on, modernity is closer and closer to the end, and postmodernity is closer and closer to it's beginning. I think the post-modern era will begin when a new way of thinking is formed and all the past ideas are destroyed and forgotten. Just like in the Enlightenment whey they formed a new rational and scientific way of thinking, there will be a new Renaissance and times will change even more.In the book, "The Consequences of Modernity," it says on page 2, "The condition of post-modernity is distinguished by an evaporating of the "grand narrative"- the overarching "story line" by means of which we are placed in history as beings having a definite past and a predictable future." The belief of the "grand narrative" helped to characterize modernity. Now in the post-modern era, the "grand narrative" no longer exists in today's thought.According to Jean-Francois Lyotard, the "grand narrative" is the belief that knowledge is something that can not be created. It was believed that there was no such thing as knowledge and it was never gained throughout our lives. If this were true, every society in the world would be equal. As it turns out, some societies are more advanced than others are because their knowledge helped them to think of ideas to make the society better. A good way to understand the transition from...
